Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara
Former native authorities chairmen in Rivers State have threatened to renew workplace within the councils if Governor Siminalayi Fubara refuses to obey the current Supreme Court docket judgement outlawing the usage of caretaker committees to run council affairs.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
The previous chairmen loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, made the menace throughout a information briefing in Port Harcourt on Friday.
The previous chairman of Emohua LGA, Dr Chidi Lloyd, mentioned they’d been affected person whereas anticipating Fubara to adjust to the court docket judgment. Nonetheless, he has continued to work with the Caretaker Committee members within the 23 LG councils of the state.
Dr Lloyd alleged that the governor’s actions are able to inflicting a breach of the peace within the state and referred to as on the police authority on the nationwide degree to take mandatory actions to cease the actions of Fubara’s CTC chairmen.
He said, “The essence of this convention is to say that we’re not cowards, if this continues we are going to return to our native authorities and pressure ourselves into the councils.
“Now we have stored quiet due to the type of chief we’ve who continues now and again to evangelise the trail of peace. We’re nonetheless the identical ones that elected him into workplace as governor when his native authorities produced lower than 5000 votes.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
“If this continues, we are going to exacerbate the already exacerbated scenario, we’re not cowards. We’re calling on the police to behave quick. The State Home of Meeting had written to the Inspector Basic of Police and in addition resolved on the ground of the Home on the police. We have no idea why the police in Rivers are foot-dragging and saying that issues are executed correctly.”
Dr Lloyd warned the CTC chairmen to steer clear from their venture websites, saying, “Anyone who offers with them does so at his or her detriment. Any additional impersonation, we are going to all hit the sector, then in regulation, we are going to now know what the Supreme Court docket has mentioned.”
Additionally talking, the fast previous chairman of Ahoada West LGA, Hope Ikriko, mentioned the governor who by regulation was vested with the ability to take care of regulation and order had failed in that regard.
Ikiro mentioned, “We aren’t even saying all of us are agitated, the persons are agitated. They name us each day and we’re the voice of the unvoiced. That’s the reason we’re telling the federal government to work well timed.
“Our governor doesn’t appear to be excited by peace. They’re going about sealing off properties belonging to perceived enemies. We aren’t afraid of them, however they need to be certain that there may be peace and order within the state. Because the governor is sealing properties, we may also go to his properties within the previous GRA.”
On his half, the previous Chairman of Port Harcourt Metropolis Native Authorities and fast previous Chairman of ALGON within the state, Allwell Ihunda, mentioned the briefing was to attract the eye of President Bola Tinubu, the Nationwide Meeting, the judiciary, safety companies, and Rivers folks to what he termed “crass contempt of judgements of the Court docket of Enchantment and the Supreme Court docket delivered on July 4, 2024 and July 11, 2024, respectively”.
Ihunda recalled that the supreme court docket ruling of July 11, 2024, which affirmed the autonomy of the LGA throughout the nation, abolished the powers of the State Governors to arrange caretaker committees in to control the Native Authorities Councils in Nigeria as enshrined by part 7(1) of the 1999 structure.
Ihunda mentioned whereas different state governors had allegedly began obeying the order of the court docket to step down caretaker committees throughout the nation, ‘the scenario in Rivers State is completely different.
“In Rivers State, the State Authorities is busy selling these unlawful caretaker committees by encouraging the unlawful caretaker committee chairmen and members to parade themselves as head of the Native Authorities Administration within the 23 Native Authorities Areas,” he mentioned,
The PUNCH experiences that the Rivers Police Command had taken over the 23 LGA headquarters within the wake of the disaster over the tenure of the LG chairmen, even because the Inspector Basic of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, later insisted that the police will proceed to occupy the councils till a court docket of competent jurisdiction guidelines on the matter.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE